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a group of many islands in a large body of water
- All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!Book 6 — Salut au Monde! (86% in)
- ...than any before, as in a vision it comes to me, I chant America the mistress, I chant a greater supremacy, I chant projected a thousand blooming cities yet in time on those groups of sea-islands, My sail-ships and steam-ships threading the archipelagoes, My stars and stripes fluttering in the wind, Commerce opening, the sleep of ages having done its work, races reborn, refresh'd, Lives, works resumed—the object I know not—but the old, the Asiatic renew'd as it must be, Commencing from...Book 18 — A Broadway Pageant (74% in)
- Young Libertad! with the venerable Asia, the all-mother, Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad, for you are all, Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother now sending messages over the archipelagoes to you, Bend your proud neck low for once, young Libertad.Book 18 — A Broadway Pageant (91% in)
- His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes, With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war, With these and the world-spreading factories he interlinks all geography, all lands; What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas?Book 33 — SONGS OF PARTING (8% in)
There are no more uses of "archipelago" in Leaves of Grass.
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